At one point Giannis Antetokounmpo was a stateless child who was rejected a Greek passport. Now he’s carrying his country’s flag at the Paris 2024 Olympics. In this video, we go through the key events of Giannis’ life challenges & his career with the Greek National Team.
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What kind of targetman has football losed in Giannis…
Εινε τεραστιοσ ΑΓΑΠΑΜΕ ΓΙΑΝΝΗ❤❤❤
Who ii this fucking malaka is he an american?
Giannis deserves credit & kudos for surviving in his young years during the EU financial crisis that decimated southern EU countries for many years–especially Greece! He's a Winner & has a long way to go! His traditional family ethic & hard work is an example to other young athletes everywhere in the world! Great video!
What an ignorant VIDEO. Giannis and his family came to a country which was always homogenous and was recently devastated by the crime that was imported from Albania and the rest of the former eastern block. I 'm not saying that they encountered 0 racism. Every country has ignorant people. I happen to know Mr Giannis in Sepolia, who stood up for this family, and he is a wonderfull man !!! What Greece gave to these boys is the CULTURE and MENTALITY!!! Their family was already close but living in a culture that helps the ideal of nuclear family is very important. Greeks are not racists.. If your name is Giannis, they don't care about your colour… You are Greek. Our nation is not based on genes but culture. That is why Serbians, Turks, Egyptians, Americans, British, Latin Americans who live here, feel like they 're at home… This is because, if you embrace the culture, the culture will accept you without prerequisites. Thank you. P.S : Γιάννης is the Greek Freak because of his Nigerian genes and his Greek Heritage. I'm hoping he will teach his children to become greeks…this will be their secret/nuclear weapon, to dominate in any society the end up living…. And lastly… ΘΑΝΑΣΗ ΕΙΣΑΙ ΨΥΧΑΡΑ και 100.000% έλληνας.
I don't know if I've seen a more stupid and stupid video. Giannis and his brothers have received a lot of love from the Greeks long before they became famous basketball players. also to succeed in basketball, they were helped by Greeks without receiving even 1 euro back. So do your nonsense about the views with other propaganda videos.
Giannis will be the first athlete to start the parade of athletes, not just the Greek flag bearer
Being a greek and seeing giannis keep trying to win from 2014 to 2024 is so emotional
I am greek and completely not bias so I thing Greece will win the Olympics!!! 😎
If Nigeria hadn't showed interest, Greece wouldn't even give them the citizenship.
this is what rubbish we became, a foreign african millionaire to carry our olympic/greek flags. ancient greeks fought for glory and were poor.
Lol bro for Athenean hoods playing basket with all types of color ppl was at least fron 00s normal …i even had the oppurtunity to play with Thanasi in Aigaleo one time
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It is a great story but there are Olympians and gold medalists that should be probably carrying the flag instead, no disrespect to Giannis who is also among the best in his field but it is somewhat unfair to existing Greek goldmedalists (in other sports) in the current team to be trailing behind someone who is not a goldmedalist yet. Good for flavour, great story and hopefully Giannis will also become an Olympic Greek goldmedalist but perhaps not entirely fair to other athletes.
We love Giannis, but only a Greek should carry the Greek flag.
As simple as that. No hate.
He is not the first black athlete to play for Greece
nice clickbait video man…. Giannis did not face racism in his free entry elementary school…. he often expresses his gratitude to his patient and welcoming elementary school white teachers…. This video is full of mud for Greek society 's racism…. in fact Greeks are less racist than central europeans and Lithuanians
HE IS THE BEST
So much truth!
Thank you for your video
Please change the title, it is completely wrong. Giannis was neither illegal nor an immigrant. Giannis was born in Greece and according to European Law, he should be a Greek citizen from day 1 of his life. Illegal were the Greek governments that refused to adopt and apply the law and kept refusing while pretending to be a legitimate European member and lying to E.U. Systemic political racism denied Giannis, his brothers and thousands of other kids their legal human rights.
He shouldn't carry the flag because he has no olympic medal
Illegal entry is punishable with imprisonment or fine, and ofcourse departure + re-entry ban. In which universe they sould be awarded with Greek passport for their crime?
USA are a multiethnic state, so any can carrying as represntative the (multiethnic) state's Flag. Greece is monoethnic state, made from Greek people for Greek people host, so a different descent can not express as flag's representative the Greek nation.
To ancient years is prohibit if someone hasa NO Greek descent, to participate to Olympic games. Now the modern ones, are called Olympic games, though, they do not make them in Olympia, Greece, neither are monoethnic, but participate many nations worldwide. So rules changed to the participation mode, this violate the core of what Greece is, and what Olympic games represent, but we bypass this, as a shared to rest of the world, way of living.
Giannis Antetokounmpo is a hard working person, who deserves respect. He & the Greek state's officials, choose to participate with Greece, to a violated Olympic games core. But he is not representative of Greek gennera, same as if you, me or anyone could not carry Nigeria's nation flag, if Nigeria comitee choose us to participate and if we accept this. So its not about offense to anyone, its about representing identity civilisation's values.
So the basic meaning is that Greek civilisation values are breached, from this political deccission, which is not a fault of Giannis. Greek state, and Greeks have many ways to honor Giannis, giving a road with his name, a new basketball stadium name etc etc not represanting a different descent nation, nation is not the law, is the become, the descent, the edjucation identity and the law, unfortunately many modern nations, have different civilisation rules, and different society, so its not about racism, or offence, its about represantion and values. Today states have no common values. And also in Greece the politicians try hard to abandon Greek civilisation values, as political system is complete corrupted, so they vote laws that support this multiethnic soup, infact offending the (Nigerian) descent (identity) of Giannis to our case, its not offensive if a Nigerian wants and fight for Greece, but he can not represent the majority of the nation as symbol, as also we can not full all any Greek national team with different nationality descent people, but only some rare exceptions, and that only if both sides, athletes, people, society, accepted, and law enable it. Its not all state's made in the same way, neither have same values. Monoethnic State is the indigenous locals, and this a continious in time Hellenism Greek civilisation Value.
So the “ what went wrong with greek basketball “ is now pure propaganda about racism ! Complexes
I see in every video Lithuanian funs to be sooooo proud that their national team is so "pure" and doesn't have naturalized or immigrant children and bla bla and now this video feels ho hypocritical without addressing that issue on Lithuania before speaking for another country.
Ok it's all good and fair criticism only if you have expressed the same views for Lithuania and Lithuanian national team in the past. Have you ever defended the idea that Lithuanian team should have immigrants and naturalized players? I think not. And I also think that in Lithuania is even more difficult to acquire a passport than Greece. So no, I don't think the criticism is well intended from your part. If you mention on a future live that you are in favor of an idea to include immigrants to Lithuanian national team then I could say the criticism was fair.
Thanks God Giannis doesn't see all things one-sided like the writer of the video does because he would never play for Greece. Also Lithuanians make us lessons on racism? How many immigrant children you have in your national team?